as in to misunderstand
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Recent Examples of mishear
Host Matthew Deane called out each successful contestant by their title; however, Miss Panama Isamar Herrera appeared to mishear her own country being called over the speaker.
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Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Gemini occasionally mishears commands or fails without a strong LTE or phone connection.
—Brent Rose, Outside, 10 Oct. 2025
Likewise, transcription accuracy during post-call scenarios remains a critical bottleneck, especially when AI mishears essential details like customer names, street addresses or job descriptions.
—Somil Gupta, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Older patients, especially, mishear instructions or are too overwhelmed by bad news to listen carefully.
—David Owen, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
These assistants regularly misunderstand, mishear, and sometimes just don’t listen at all.
—Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 June 2024
She's confused: Did Adrian mishear something or is Brayden being manipulative?
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 July 2023
The people in her stories mishear and misunderstand one another, indulge in compulsive wordplay and defiant corniness.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
Now, don’t mishear me.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mishear
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Following a meeting on the soil testing protocol, Whelton noted that officials appeared to misunderstand the need to test for 16 additional hazardous metals.—
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People keep either misunderstanding or forgetting that there are not one but two revolutions going on here, the second being accelerated computing.—
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Some of the viral videos and social media posts have misconstrued publicly available information.—
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Ryan Heiden, a labor attorney working with the city from Milwaukee firm von Briesen & Roper, advised the committee against putting any intentions in writing, warning that it could be misconstrued if in the years to come the two departments do indeed merge.—
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Share the plan in writing so no one misreads it.—
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Advocates say they are often baked in at the earliest moments of a case, when trauma is misread, documentation never forms, and charging decisions are made before courts ever see the full context.—
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It can so easily be misinterpreted and presents a challenge for both the neurodivergent person and the neurotypical.—
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Allegations that are now spreading online could be misinterpreting records or exaggerating minor issues — or could be exposing actual fraudulent activity.—
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According to the researchers, these misperceptions may stop people from speaking up about their concerns and cause policymakers to misperceive how much their constituents care.—
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Russian pilots could misperceive the escorts as offensive NATO warplanes and engage them, precipitating a disaster with unknown consequences.—
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That is true of leaders anywhere, but Israel’s history has predisposed some of its policymakers to focus excessively on day-to-day survival and to misapprehend or ignore strategic dynamics as a result.—
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But would her students, turned on everywhere by the dogma of political correctness, misapprehend Haynes’s aim?—
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“Mishear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mishear. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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